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PASSINGS: Vincent G. Dowling, John La Montaine
Vincent G. Dowling Actor, director gave Tom Hanks early break Actor and director Vincent G. Dowling, 83, who left behind a long career with Ireland's national theater to run a Shakespeare festival in Cleveland where he gave a young Tom Hanks an...
Tags: John F. Kennedy, Music Industry, Richard Nixon, Journalism, Celebrities
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PASSINGS: Dallas Willard, Jack Butler, Fredrick McKissack
Dallas Willard Influential Christian philosopher taught at USC for 47 years Dallas Willard, 77, an influential Christian philosopher who taught at USC for 47 years and chaired the philosophy department in the early 1980s, died Wednesday in Woodland...
Tags: Family, Football, Pittsburgh Steelers, NFL Pro Bowl, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Remembering Dr. Joyce Brothers: Movie and TV star
Psychologist and columnist Dr. Joyce Brothers, who died Monday at the age of 85, won the top prize in 1955 on the popular TV game show "The $64,000 Question" on the subject of boxing. Smart, attractive and fearless, Brothers' media career quickly...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, The Simpsons (tv program), Psychologists, The Smothers Brothers, Game Shows
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Heinrich Rohrer dies at 79; a father of nanotechnology
The electron microscope revolutionized biology in the 1930s by providing magnifications thousands of times higher than that of light microscopes, allowing scientists to discern the inner workings of cells for the first time. But it was not nearly as...
Tags: Nanotechnology, Invention and Innovation, Rutgers University, Nobel Prize Awards, Research
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Dr. Joyce Brothers, famed TV psychologist, dies at 85
Dr. Joyce Brothers, a psychologist who became a pop-culture fixture after she turned to radio and television in the late 1950s to tend to the nation’s psyche, has died. She was 85. Brothers died Monday in New York City, publicist Sanford Brokaw...
Tags: Psychology, Cornell University, Philosophy, Long Island, Science and Technology
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Jeanne Cooper of 'Young and the Restless' dies at 84
Jeanne Cooper, best known as matriarch Katherine Chancellor on CBS' daytime drama "The Young and the Restless," has died. She was 84. "My mother passed away this morning just a short time ago, peaceful with my sister by her side, in her sleep," son...
Tags: Jeanne Cooper, Corbin Bernsen, Social Media
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PASSINGS: Henri Dutilleux, Harold Shapero, Vernon McGarity
Henri Dutilleux French composer of modernist music Henri Dutilleux, 97, a highly regarded French composer of modernist music, died Thursday in Paris, said his publisher, Schott Music. The cause was not given. Considered one of the most important...
Tags: Paris (France), Music Industry, Human Interest, U.S. Army, World War II (1939-1945)
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PASSINGS: Frederic Franklin, David Morris Kern
Frederic Franklin Dancer helped popularize modern ballet in U.S. Frederic Franklin, 98, a British-born dancer who helped popularize modern ballet in the United States, died Saturday at a Manhattan, N.Y., hospital of complications from pneumonia,...
Tags: The Arizona Republic, Labor Legislation, Norwich, Lincoln Center, Arts and Culture
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PASSINGS: Jeanne Cooper, Mario Machado, Bryan Forbes
Jeanne Cooper Emmy winner starred in 'The Young and the Restless' Jeanne Cooper, 84, the enduring soap opera star who played grande dame Katherine Chancellor for nearly four decades on CBS' "The Young and the Restless," died Wednesday in her sleep,...
Tags: Tony Curtis, Blue Thunder (tv program) , Bracken's World (tv program) , Celebrities, Sports
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Herbert Blau, theater director and former CalArts provost, dies at 87
Herbert Blau, a renowned and influential theater director who helped to shape the California Institute of the Arts during its early years, has died at 87. He died at his home in Seattle on Friday following a battle with cancer, according to reports....
Tags: Fine Artists, Artists, Lincoln Center, Arts and Culture
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PASSINGS: Bernard Waber
Bernard Waber, 91, the author of such children's favorites as "The House on East 88th Street" and "Lyle, Lyle Crocodile," died Thursday at his Long Island, N.Y., home after a long illness, according to a statement from his publisher, Houghton Mifflin...
Tags: Upper East Side, Authors, University of Pennsylvania, Arts and Culture, Book
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Matt Groening's mom dies; maiden name Wiggum, she inspired Marge Simpson
Fans of "The Simpsons" are in mourning over the death of a woman most of them never met: series co-creator Matt Groening's mother, Margaret Groening. For most, she will be forever linked with Marge Simpson, her animated namesake. A paid obituary...
Tags: The Simpsons (tv program), The Office (tv program)
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